Timothy J. Klausutis lives in the same house in Niceville, Fla., that he shared with his late wife, Lori. He never remarried after her death in the summer of 2001. Over the past three years, until now, he has stayed silent as President Trump hinted with no evidence that his beloved might have been having an affair with Joe Scarborough, whom she worked for, and that the then-congressman might have even killed her.

Now, Klausutis is asking Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey to delete Trump’s posts that disparage his wife’s memory and impugn his marriage. “I’m asking you to intervene in this instance because the President of the United States has taken something that does not belong him — the memory of my dead wife – and perverted it for perceived political gain,” Klausutis writes in a three-page letter. “I would also ask that you consider Lori’s niece and two nephews who will eventually come across this filth in the future. They have never met their Aunt and it pains me to think they would ever have to about her this way. My wife deserves better.”.A Twitter spokesman emailed this response: “We are deeply sorry about the pain these statements, and the attention they are drawing, are causing the family. We’ve been working to expand existing product features and policies so we can more effectively address things like this going forward, and we hope to have those changes in place shortly.”.After news of the letter broke, Trump defiantly doubled down with more tweets on the subject:Angry at the tenor of commentary on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Trump has callously beat this drum since November 2017. The Post’s Fact Checker unit gave Four Pinocchios to Trump’s claims earlier this month about Klausutis’s death. “We wish we had more to give,” said Sal Rizzo.On the eve of Memorial Day, as the death toll from the novel coronavirus neared 100,000 in the United States and he prepared to hit the golf course for a second consecutive day, Trump took a few minutes to again pose questions: “So a young marathon runner just happened to faint in his office, hit her head on his desk, & die? I would think there is a lot more to this story than that? An affair?” On Saturday, Trump urged his followers to “keep digging.” Last week, the president posted: “Did he get away with murder? Some people think so.”.As he pushes to quickly reopen the country amid the worst public health crisis since 1918 and worst economic crisis since 1933, Trump has ratcheted up his invective on Twitter against an array of perceived enemies. This is a tactic the president has often used successfully in the past to change the subject when he is facing scrutiny and bad press for his job performance..Scarborough was in Washington at the time of her death. Police said there were no signs of foul play. (Read the medical examiner’s report for yourself.),Mika Brzezinski, Scarborough’s co-host and wife, took four minutes to read the entire letter aloud on their show..“I know all too well how much T.J. has suffered and how much his family has suffered,” Scarborough said when she was done. “It’s unspeakably cruel, whether it’s the president or whether it’s people following the president. These are not public figures, nor have they ever been public figures. Every time they spread these lies, they’re hurting the family.”.Klausutis, now 52, explains in his letter that his wife had an undiagnosed heart condition, which caused her to fall and hit her head on a desk, leading to her death after they had been married four years. “I have mourned my wife every day since her passing,” he writes. “I’m a research engineer and not a lawyer, but reviewed all of Twitter’s rules and terms of service. The President’s tweet that suggests that Lori was murdered – without evidence and contrary to the official autopsy — is a violation of Twitter’s community rules and terms of service. An ordinary user like me would be banished from the platform for such a tweet but I am only asking that these tweets be removed.” He also asks for disparaging tweets from the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., to be deleted.

Trump and Biden commemorated Memorial Day. Only Biden wore a mask.

“Memorial Day 2020 offered an array of contrasts as some Americans sheltered in their homes, others flocked to beaches and pools, and the nation’s political leaders honored generations of war dead,” Ellen Nakashima reports. “The disparate approaches played out as the country’s reported death toll from the coronavirus edged closer to 100,000. Trump took part in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery and later gave remarks at Fort McHenry in Baltimore to honor those who have given their lives in wars past and those fighting today on the front lines of the pandemic. … Biden emerged from his home for the first time since mid-March to lay a wreath at the Delaware Memorial Bridge Veterans Memorial Park

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“It feels good to be out of my house,” Biden said. (Sean Sullivan)Trump said he is no longer taking hydroxychloroquine.

“Trump said he had ‘just finished’ taking a two-week course of the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, the medication he has vigorously promoted as a preventative or curative treatment for the coronavirus, even as evidence piles up that the drug may cause more harm than good,” NBC News reports. “‘Finished, just finished,’ he said in an interview that aired on Sinclair Broadcasting on Sunday. ‘And by the way, I’m still here.’” Meanwhile, the World Health Organization announced a pause on its trial of the drug for treating the virus, citing fears of its side effects, per Tim Elfrink.

“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. and Washington Sen. Patty Murray said the administration ‘still does not have a serious plan for increasing testing to stop the spread of the virus,’” the AP reports. “[An] 81-page document from the Department of Health and Human Services says, ‘State plans must establish a robust testing program that ensures adequacy of COVID-19 testing, including tests for contact tracing, and surveillance of asymptomatic persons to determine community spread.’ … The Democratic lawmakers, who released the HHS report along with their joint letter, said it ‘confirms that President Trump’s national testing strategy is to deny the truth that there aren’t enough tests and supplies, reject responsibility and dump the burden onto the states.’”

Latinos are getting hit hard because many live in crowded housing and work in essential jobs.

“Latinos, who make up about 10 percent of the population in the District, Maryland and Virginia, make up about a third of the coronavirus cases in the region,” Antonio Olivo, Marissa Lang and John Harden report. “The disparity is not unique to the capital area. Latinos young and old are contracting the virus at alarmingly high rates in places such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, although the fatality rate for their community is significantly lower than that of African Americans. … Experts cite many explanations: Latinos are a dominant presence in service industry jobs, leaving them unable to ride out the pandemic from home. … Outside of work, avoiding the virus can be nearly impossible, either because Latino families are more likely to live in multigenerational homes or because many take on multiple roommates to manage the Washington region’s high housing costs. Efforts to slow the virus’s spread are tangled with complications, public health experts say, including language barriers, economic stressors, limited resources and, in some cases, a slow response from local governments.”Holiday gatherings sparked concerns.

Hypocrisy watch in Michigan: One set of rules for the powerful. Another for the rest of us.

The owner of a Northern Michigan dock said the husband of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) wanted his boat placed in the water before the holiday weekend, even as Whitmer told residents to stay home. The company’s Facebook post, which is no longer visible to the public, has drawn the attention of Republicans, who said the governor’s family may not be following her guidance for the rest of the state. A Whitmer spokeswoman did not deny the allegations, saying only that the governor will not respond to “every rumor that is spread online.” (Detroit News)

A Tokyo train station is crowded with commuters on Tuesday. (Eugene Hoshiko/AP)

The world has a bad case of quarantine fatigue.

Tokyo lifted its state of emergency today. “Somewhere in this crowded, sprawling city of 37 million people, the coronavirus is still lurking. But life must go on. On Monday, Japan lifted the state of emergency over the greater Tokyo area, effectively ending the country’s soft lockdown. New infections have slowed to a trickle and hospital beds have been freed up. There is, finally, light at the end of the tunnel,” Simon Denyer reports. “Now Japan is getting ready for what it’s calling a ‘new lifestyle,’ an idiosyncratic attempt to restart daily life without provoking another increase in infections. … For reasons that still aren’t entirely clear, Japan has officially recorded only 16,000 infections and 800 deaths. Although low rates of testing mean many cases were missed, the country has had a fraction of the numbers seen in the West.”

Italy’s nightlife came raging back. “On Monday, as images of nightlife played on Italian TV, a chorus of politicians warned that the country had gotten reckless and risked backsliding in its fight against the coronavirus,” Chico Harlan and Stefano Pitrelli report. “The governor of the country’s northern Veneto region, Luca Zaia, shared a video on social media showing images of people shaking hands, having drinks with masks worn like necklaces, before cutting away to an image of somebody in a hospital bed. ‘Covid-19 is fought in hospitals,’ the message said at the end, ‘but above all outside.’”

“Car factories are starting back up in Brazil and Mexico. Train service is restarting across much of India. Mining companies are reopening in Peru,” the Journal reports.

Denmark is allowing couples separated by international borders to reunite under one condition: They must prove that their relationship is legitimate, perhaps with photos or love letters. (Antonia Farzan)

The energy minister in Alberta, Canada, said the pandemic is a “great time” to build pipelines because large group protests are banned. (Farzan)China tested 9 million people in Wuhan in 10 days.

“On Friday alone, the city said it tested 1.47 million people—more than three times the number on the busiest day of testing in the U.S.,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The aggressive mass-testing regimen was ordered after authorities said a handful of coronavirus cases had been discovered in a residential compound this month. The plan to test all of the city’s 11 million people—the initial goal was to do so within just 10 days—was greeted with doubt from some skeptics … While falling slightly short of its ambitious target of testing everyone in the city, Wuhan was nonetheless able to test so many people so quickly by adopting an approach known as ‘sample pooling’ … Using sample pooling, Wuhan authorities collected samples one by one from citizens, and then processed five to 10 of them at once in a single nucleic-acid test. By bundling multiple samples, Wuhan was able to immediately clear all of the citizens included in one test—as long as the test came out as negative—thereby significantly cutting the number of total nucleic-acid tests required.”

Africa remains the least-affected continent in the world, the WHO said. It just has 1.5 percent of the world’s reported cases. However, the various efforts to combat the disease in the continent have endangered food supply chains and disrupted essential health services, including vaccination efforts for other diseases. (Paul Schemm)

Indonesia is deploying hundreds of thousands of soldiers and police officers to ensure that people wear masks and practice social distancing. (Antonia Farzan)

Germany’s contact tracing effort outpaces those in the U.S. and U.K.

“As the United Kingdom and the United States scramble to hire teams of contact tracers, local health authorities across Germany have used contact scouts … since they confirmed their first cases early this year,” Loveday Morris and Luisa Beck report. “Epidemiologists say the effort has been essential to the country’s ability to contain its coronavirus outbreak and avoid the larger death tolls seen elsewhere, even with a less stringent shutdown than in other countries. Germany has experienced about 10 coronavirus deaths per 100,000 people. … Germany aims to have five contact tracers for every 25,000 people — or about 16,000 for its population of 83 million. … Germany’s effort is decidedly low-tech. Privacy concerns — which run strong in Europe and particularly deep in Germany, with its not-so-distant memories of fascism and communism — have limited the potential of contact-tracing apps. So the tracing is largely a case of calling the recently diagnosed patient and asking his or her movements.”

The White House said foreigners who have visited Brazil in the last 14 days will be barred from entering the U.S. starting Wednesday, two days ahead of schedule. (Antonia Farzan)

More than 200 workers tested positive for the virus at a textile plant in Guatemala after the company failed to institute measures to safeguard worker’s health. (Farzan)Santiago Baten-Oxlaj, a 34-year-old Guatemalan migrant held by ICE in a South Georgia detention center died from the virus. CoreCivic, the private corrections company that operates ICE detention centers, said 51 of its employees who work at that facility have tested positive for the virus. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

The Sword of Damocles hangs over Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

“A rift within his family, a collapsing economy and rising tensions with his key ally Russia lay bare the fragility of his regime,” Liz Sly and Asser Khattab report. “Cracks are starting to appear in the once-united front presented by loyalists who stood by Assad throughout his battle to crush the opposition. A rare eruption of criticism in Russian media outlets has drawn attention to his dependence on foreign allies — Iran as well as Russia — for his survival. Most important, an imploding economy is driving Syrians into poverty on a scale unprecedented in recent history. … The stirrings of a new rebellion in the southern province of Daraa speak to the potential for a fresh insurgency in areas that have been recaptured by the government.”Social media speed read<aFox News’s Brit Hume mocked Biden for wearing a face mask. Trump retweeted this post, sparking backlash from the left.Trump, who claimed a “bone spur” to avoid service in Vietnam, attacked Rep. Conor Lamb (D-Pa.), a Marine veteran, over Memorial Day weekend. The congressman responded: